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Resistivity, magnetization, and microscopic 75 As nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements in the antiferromagnetically ordered state of the iron-based superconductor parent material CaFe 2 As 2 exhibit anomalous features that are consistent with the collective freezing of domain walls. Below T∗ ≈ 10 K, the resistivity exhibits a peak and downturn, the bulk magnetization exhibits a sharp increase, and 75 As NMR measurements reveal the presence of slow ﬂuctuations of the hyperﬁne ﬁeld. These features in both the charge and spin response are strongly ﬁeld dependent, are fully suppressed by H ∗ ≈ 15 T, and suggest the presence of ﬁlamentary superconductivity nucleated at the antiphase domain walls in this material.